Tasmania's Basslink data and power cable cut (on purpose) but fix not until May

Broadband users limp along

Cable ship the Ile de Re has made its first cut to the Basslink electrical cable, and residents of the Australian state of Tasmanians have been plunged back to the era when only one telco (Australia's dominant player Telstra) provided Internet backhaul to the mainland.…

via The Register - Networks
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